It is impossible for me to keep from bringing a spiritual mindset to the movie watching experience. I echo Roger Ebert in seeing films as mechanisms for generating empathy. And so, every film has an opportunity to give us a new perspective – which I consider to be a very spiritual endeavor, indeed. However, there are certainly […]
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It’s Wednesday 3rd June. And the official line-up for the 73rd Festival de Cannes, has been revealed, live from the UGC Normandie, Paris. As it stands, the 2020 Official Selection will comprise of one whole film list, rather than the usual breakdown into categories (Competition, Un Certain regard, Midnight Screenings et al). This, and many
Prix d’interprétation féminine – Irène Jacob Prix du Jury Œcuménique FIPRESCI Prix In one of the later scenes of Krzysztof Kieślowski‘s dazzling, intoxicating The Double Life of Véronique, the title character (or, at least, one of them) asks a male companion why he has made two puppets. His response is that one will likely be
Caméra d’Or – Tran Anh Hung Prix de la jeunesse – Tran Anh Hung The year 1993, like many others too, has movie experiences to suit most tastes. Movies that have you rolling with laughter; movies that move you to tears; movies that pump your adrenaline. And sometimes, not often as majestically as this next
A multi-faceted, poetically haunting tale, Atlantics will leave its audience longing for more of its striking, absorbing aesthetics.
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Palme d’Or – David Lynch Master of the cinematic strange, David Lynch, struggled to make a film after 1986’s cult classic, Blue Velvet. Hard to believe. Or is it? Not everyone’s cup of tea, Lynch had two projects slip away from him, before Wild at Heart came along. And by then, his TV hit Twin
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In 1977 Alain Resnais released his first film in English called Providence. One of the objectives of that film was to conquer the Anglo-Saxon market. Things didn’t go as planned. The film was a critical triumph in France where it also won 7 Césars, but it didn’t do well in the US, commercially nor critically.
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Prix du scénario – Pedro Almodóvar Prix d’interprétation féminine – Chus Lampreave, Yohana Cobo, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Penélope Cruz As vibrant, as powerful, as funny, as dramatic, as any film ever written and / or directed by the great Pedro Almodóvar. Volver is simply one of his best films, and that is really saying something. A film
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As you may have seen on Twitter yesterday, I started posting the results of the Rewriting Cannes Film Festival History poll we ran. A huge thank you to those of you that participated in what was a monstrously extensive poll – covering all 72 Cannes competitions thus far. The votes were tallied and produced some
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Everything we learn in life comes from the way we are brought into the world, and how our parents teach us. From the accents we develop, to the language we use, to our emotional responses and our social behaviour towards others. It’s something that is inherently built into us from the moment we are birthed
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